Dialectic of nihilism
Subtitle: post-structuralism and law
By: Gillian Rose.
Publisher: Basil Blackwell
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Oxford [Oxfordshire]; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Law -- Philosophy.; Natural law.; Nihilism (Philosophy); Poststructuralism.
Description: This book fundamentally challenges the radical credentials of posts-structuralism. Though Derrida, Foucault and Deleuze claim to have 'deconstructed' metaphysics, their work has much in common with previous attempts to 'end' the metaphysical tradition, from Kant to Nietzsche and Heidegger, and by sociology in general. Gillian Rose shows that this anti-metaphysical writing always appears in historically specific jurisprudential terms, which themselves found and recapitulate metaphysical categories. She reconsiders post-structuralism in this light and assesses the relationship between deconstruction and the earlier structuralism of Saussure and Levi-Strauss. She argues in conclusion that the choice between post-structuralism nihilism and Hegelian and Marxist dialectic is spurious. -- from back cover.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [213]-225.
Includes index.